Elon Musk pressured Reddit’s CEO on content moderation
Elon Musk pressured Reddit’s CEO on content moderation
Musk wasn’t happy about the speech on Reddit.
Summary
Elon Musk privately pressured Reddit CEO Steve Huffman to address content moderation after publicly criticizing Reddit on X for banning links and allegedly hosting violent content.
Shortly after Musk’s messages, Reddit imposed a 72-hour ban on the "WhitePeopleTwitter" subreddit, citing violent content, and deleted a thread Musk highlighted.
Reddit denies external influence but acknowledges evaluating reports seriously.
The controversy stirred discussions among Reddit moderators, some mocking Musk as a "giant baby." Musk has not commented on the situation.
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I haven't been to reddit since it happened, I imagine many others did the same.
I've been trying to switch but it's just so dead over here. We need more posters to make the jump
Fine for me. Don't need a lot of troll bots and junk opinions from the uninformed. 🤷♂️
Or reposts
Or all the inane/AI generated ragebait wall of texts on AITA and the like
AITAh was always fake story even before the AI came on board. around 90% were fake, the way you can tell is how proposterous some of the story sounds.
Oh definitely, the amount just has been compounded since the introduction of AI to consumers
I've been here since Apigate. It's getting more active, but not the same. However, I've found myself actually scrolling less due to the less content, which has been a good thing for my mental health.
And the obligatory F Spez, F Elon.
There’s less posts sure, but when I left last year so much of Reddits front page content was just badly reposted bot garbage anyway.
There were some specific communities where there we enough active real people posted to keep it interesting, but I could tell then where it was going, and as far as I can tell I wasn’t wrong.
Artificially created content to force or fake engagement to drive ad sales isn’t any less dead than here.
Also the fact that you’re giving your content up for free so spez can lock it behind paywalls is just insane.
My own experience has been the opposite, I've gotten more engagement in my short time here than in the last year or two on reddit. Plus no one here is trying to ban my account every time I point out trump/ musk is a big ol poopy pants.
its not so much as the reporting, but the good-two-shoes comment and trolls. trying to bait you into a argument with "both sides, and whataboutism, or bringing up only left-bashing comments.
Flying Squid has disappeared the past month. Very active user. I am worried.
With the previous frequency of comments/posts, and everything else going on, I hope flyingsquid is taking the time to relax.
He recently moved apparently, so probably just busy with life stuff?
Oh that’s good to know. I know there were health issues. That concerned me. He’ll be back later then I’m sure.
He achieved the new american dream of leaving the US. Hopefully he'll resume posting again once he's settled.
I've had him blocked for a while and it is still plenty active here for me.
I mean. He might just be flying around somewhere.
Reddit didn't become a giant in one day either. The more people you tell about lemmy the more people will use it.
yea it dint, not until trumps 1st term, then reddit just ballooned out of control since then, reporting became more sensitive(it got easier to get banned because of the politics made people to sensitive, and they can easily miconstrue your comments. for the longest time i was on niche subs, then politics became so prominent around '16-20.
I have to use all for browsing and just block communities and instances that I don't care about.
Sort by new! There's a flood of fresh posts all the time and if you upvote/comment the ones you like they end up at the top of other people's active feed with your comment already there!!
I always sort by “New” and browse “All.” Just to upvote and give traction to the smaller communities. Especially give my appreciation to any original content.
If there's too little content, that likely means that you spend more than a couple of hours on reddit. Yep, there's not enough content to fill your day here. But also, maybe there shouldn't be. If you go on here like max 1hr each day, you won't notice a difference. Anything more, yeah, you're "missing" content. But why spend more than 1hr daily here?...
I moved to Lemmy since the API fiasco, almost 2 years ago, I never posted/voted on reddit since. Sometimes I check some sub for their contents but never ever participate.
I tried then and it just didn't stick for me for some reason so I crawled back to the ex with my head hung in shame. Attempt #2 is sticking though.
It's a much bigger user base now, so it's a much better replacement. And reddit sucks so much more completely now.
I think thats why its sticking this time, the user base is a bit larger and it's a bit more fleshed out. It's much easier to stick around when there is something to stick around for.
I still go there sometimes..... I only upvote porn, dark humor and shitty spelling.
That way, the ad companies are less interested and the AI training data becomes garbage.
i moved last month due to massive purge of accounts. let the trolls have the politics and news subs.
It's exactly why I'm here.
Its a great reason too.
after feb 12-13, when they started to aggressively banning people, right after musk complained about r/whitepeople twitter.